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kev7161
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 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:34 am Post subject: We already know a lot of this . . . |
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. . . but a good read anyway.
http://www.cntravel.biz/detail_cn.shtml?China:-English-beginning-to-be-spoken-here-946.shtml
I especially liked the closing paragraph:
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| Although China's passion for English is palpable, it will become a lucrative and open market only if China's Communist Party allows it to. It is reluctant because, along with English textbooks and teachers come western ways of learning and thinking�ways that might one day threaten the party's authority. |
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stillnosheep
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: We already know a lot of this . . . |
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Double Post
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stillnosheep
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: We already know a lot of this . . . |
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| Although China's passion for English is palpable, it will become a lucrative and open market only if China's Communist Party allows it to. It is reluctant because, along with English textbooks and teachers come western ways of learning and thinking�ways that might one day threaten the party's authority. |
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Your quoted source is incorrect on one point. In the spirit of China's 'Open Door' policy introduced under Deng Xiaoping the CP encourages native English speakers to teach in China.
Unlike Japan, China does not spend the equivalant of $36,000 (US) per person per year on salary alone needed to place a native English speaker in every school.
However unlike China, the Japanese government will not issue the relevant (Specialist in Humanities/International Services) work visa to native English speakers wishing to teach English in private Japanese conversation schools unless they have either: 1) a full 4 yr degree (3 yrs if it is issued by an English, Welsh or Northern Irish University); or 2) 3 yrs certifiable experience of teaching English. |
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